I had nothing to do with any of this.
First, this post is about a spider, [a honking big spider]. Secondly, there will be no spidy pics for you to get squeamish over, and by the end you will understand what the title means. Thirdly, I think that I am working on my arachnophobia, because I didn’t scream when this happened. Wow, that’s quite the accomplishment for me. Seriously. I am the woman that made her sister suck up a huge spider with the vacuum when she was 9, because I was determined that it would somehow crawl out and get me. They can do those things you know. So to fully understand this story, just insert your current phobia in place of any spider words, and you will fully understand what I am talking about.
It started the other night when Bootsie came in filthy dirty, the kitties like to hang out in some “filthy under the shrubs” place and smoke stolen kitty cigars. Then they saunter back home with smudgy paws, and track dirt all over the carpet.
He needed a bath, and I used our towels in the bathroom, which I had to launder, and dry that night. They were still warm when I hung them.
Can’t a cat hang out with his friends
and smoke cigars once in awhile?
The next morning when I stepped out of my shower, and grabbed a towel, something skittered across me, and then flew into the tub. Thank goodness it went into the tub!
A honking big spidy, I mean at least 2 1/2 inches across, and it had been hiding in my clean towel all night. Uggggghhhhh shiver.
See, you are shivering already, I can see you.
So my husband’s not home, and I can’t pick this creature up for love or money, it’s running around the tub, and there is no way I am going to flush that baby down the drain after writing that other blog post. What to do? What if it escapes from the tub, I will never sleep again. Seriously, would you if it was a mouse/bug/rat/snake?
Can you believe she’s scared of spiders?
I call my walking buddy, no go. She’s not coming down to help, she’s on her way out the door. I called another friend for whom I shall be forever grateful, and she came down in her bathrobe, [see it helps to have friends in the building]. After I open the patio door, clear a wide path through the garden, and open the gate, she released it into the wild. Hereby known as the area just outside of our patio. “Run free big honking spidy, run free.” I, of course am saying this from a very far away, and safe vantage point, up on the kitchen chair.
And I swear there was the theme song from Born Free playing in the background.
This is certainly the time when you don’t want to remember that 70’s poster, “If you love something set it free, if it comes back it’s yours….. NO, no, you do not belong in here. Don’t cue the theme song from Born Free….NOOOOOOO!
Well I survived, and so did the spidy, of course I am going to have to bleach that tea towel she used, or maybe I should burn it? And my husband certainly didn’t understand this story until I substituted the word snake, for spider. That made him shiver, teh hee. As for my towels, I will be shaking them out each morning from now on.
Wouldn’t you?
Jen @ Muddy Boot Dreams
LOL! Poor you! I don't mind spiders - but wasps on the other hand... You can hear me screaming from miles away.
ReplyDeleteHaha ~ I would for sure be shaking out my towels from now. And my shirts and my undies and my pants ~ everything!
ReplyDeleteI am laughing at your first photo. Kitty does not look impressed. ;)
Happy Weekend to you!
xo Catherine
I can just see you freaking out over this spider! Shake it out girl!!
ReplyDeleteYIKES! I used to be that way about bees...I would mow you down if you were in my way when a be was around....
ReplyDeleteMy husband was bit by a brown recluse spider that was in his shoe several years ago and had to have surgery. He was in the hospital for a week and then it took 4 more weeks to heal. So we always shake out towels, sheets, bathrobes and look in shoes before we put anything on now.
Hugs,
Penny
I substituted snakes and was almost in tears. I once left an electric mower running in our back yard for half a day until my husband got home to go and shut it off. I wouldn't even go out in the back yard to unplug it from the wall after coming across a snake in the grass. That was 28 years ago and I still shudder.
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Ah …. some spiders really do get HUGE and even bigger once they have crept into our imaginations. Hope none will be hiding in my towels any time soon! Glad you both survived ... and loved the picture of the cat looking a little disheveled on the lovely wooden chair. :)
ReplyDeleteI'd be freaking out too!! I don't like s-----s of any size and am getting braver to dispose of them when I see one, but the great big fat gray ones or the wood s-----s are another story! I got in the shower the other night and there was a tiny s-----r up near the curtain rod end. I had to dispose of it right there and down the drain it went. ewwww. I hope your s----r doesn't return to the house - ever!
ReplyDeleteI always wondered why my cats would come in smelling of smoke late at night, now I know they were probably out smoking cigars with there buddys. Oh well. I don't like big spiders either so I hear you. Enjoyed the story.
ReplyDeleteNow I would have washed the spider down the drain. I would take a spider over a snake, a mouse, a skunk, a bird, a bat. I can manage spiders. I am bigger than they are, and as Penny writes, Brown Recluse bites are very dangerous, sometimes deadly. Yet your are to be commended for your humanity and respect of life.
ReplyDeleteI would have squished it right there in the tub..now if it had been a sssnake that is another story..I would be moving out. You should live next door..I would come and dispose of spiders for you as long as you get rid of snakes for me..and none of the catch and release is allowed:)
ReplyDeleteSpiders don't bother me but after a huge wolf spider bit my daughter last summer, it got infected, she got very sick, took antibiotics, had a severe reaction, took a different antibiotic, and got better, we do routine spider patrols in our finished basement with a vacuum. If they're in the garden, they live. If they're in the house, they die. If it were a snake, I'd be in a hotel!!
ReplyDeleteNo WONDER my kitties are always trying to sneak out the door!! I get it now!! ;o) Arghhhh...so for your trauma....I like to pretend I can handle spidys (well, except for the tarantula I accidentally kicked with my sandaled foot while on vacation....or the one I almost put my hand on the same year.....) But now snakes are a different matter - and no, I'm not talking little bitty garter snakes and such - but huge honking pine snakes that like to lounge my our pool and hang from our trees and eat nests of baby birds for appetizers.....Stay calm and Shake It!! :o) Have a wonderful, spidy-free, weekend! Smiles & Hugs ~ Robin
ReplyDeleteugh yes!!! I haven´t run into any big spiders (thank God) but have found big enough spiders in my laundry pile on the floor in the laundry room. In the old days I would have stomped on them and killed them right away but someone told me it was bad luck to kill spiders..so I started trying to catch them in jars and throw them outside...which is fine if you they are laying so you can get hold of them without having to touch them..but if they are laying in a tricky position you are so out of luck...ugh...shivering just thinking of this...
ReplyDeleteAnd kitties smoking cigars eh??? Bad kitty!!! Wonder if that gives their hair balls they cough up a smokey flavor??? ;-))
That was a really cute blog. The thought of a spider that size sends shivers up and down my spine. I'm sure that here in Ontario we must get them that size also, but I can't say that I have ever seen one that big and certainly don't want to.
ReplyDeleteFirst of all, let me just say that I'm so thankful you did not show any spidy photos! Big time arachnophobia here...I would have wanted that spider dead I'm afraid...I'm not convinced they are any good, but my husband tries to convince me otherwise. Sorry spidy, but if you come into my house, beware!
ReplyDeleteAs one who is not fond of spiders either, I can sympathize with your plight. How nice that you had a friend help you dispose of the evil creature. :) Spiders don't belong indoors. EVER.
ReplyDeleteHILARIOUS post!!! I love it.
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